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I ain't one o' the presumin' kind, but if I'd a-been asked I'd a-butted in! You can bet your scalp, Sam, if I'd a-had the givin' away o' that blushin' bride, I'd 'a shoved across a stack o' blue chips with her that'd 'a set them young folks on their feet. Oh, hell's bells! If that ain't plumb removin' the limit! Sam, you'd orter be right thankful you're only an Injun.
Maxwell shouted out wrathfully: "Let me see you in here again, and it will be the worse for you, you scoundrel!" "Oh, Maxwell," cried Milly, "who is it?" "One of them skulking poachers they're always in here after the rabbits. If I hadn't a-had you to look after and had my thick stick I would a-been after him." "But you wouldn't have hurt him?" "I should have taught him a lesson, that I should!"
The landlord shook his head with a stubborn, rustic negative. "No, we arn't a-got no gentleman o' thik there name in the house," he said; "fact is, zur, to tell 'ee the truth, we arn't a-had nobody stoppin' in the Arms at all lately, 'cep' it might be a gentleman come down from London, an' it was day afore yesterday as he did come, an' he do call 'unself McGregor."
There's two or three of 'em at it, I see; but Sally won't have nothin' to say to 'em. I hope she won't, yet awhile." "Sally is a girl that has as good an eddication as money can give," said Mrs. Kittridge. "If I'd a-had her advantages at her age, I should a-been a great deal more'n I am.
If I'd been judge you'd a-had first place, Mr. Flandrau." "Much obliged. And now you've identified me sufficient, how about that ticket?" "I was coming to that. Sure you can get a ticket. Good on any train. You're so darned active, maybe you could get off Number 4 when she is fogging along sixty miles per. But most folks couldn't, not with any comfort." "Meaning that the Flyer doesn't stop?"
"Jest make yerselves ter home hyere ternight, an' in the mornin' I'll put yer on the right road to A . Lors, but yer must a-had a march! Been purty much all over the woods, I reckon. Mirandy!" he continued, calling to some one inside the cabin. "Mirandy!" "I'm a-heedin', Josh. What's the matter?" inquired a scrawny, sandy-haired woman, coming to the door, with her arms akimbo.
"Whut made you vote fer this heah railroad?" said Sarah Ann, following him mercilessly with the bonnet tube. "We didn't want no railroad. We never did have one, an' we never ought to a-had one. You listen to me, that railroad is goin' to ruin this country. Thah ain't a woman in these heah bottoms but would be skeered to have a baby grow up in her house.
"One reason Marse Morgan thought so much o' me, dey say I was a right peart young'n' an' caught on to anything pretty quick. But all de time I mus' a-had a right smart mind, 'cause I'd play 'roun' de white folks an' hear what dey'd say an' den go tell de Niggers. Don't guess de marster ever thought 'bout me doin' dat. "I was born an' bred 'bout seven miles from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Saxon sewed and listened, and Bert's face grew bleak and bitter as he contemplated the baby clothes in her lap. "There you go," he blurted out, "bringin' kids into the world when you ain't got any guarantee you can feed em. "You must a-had a souse last night," Tom grinned. Bert shook his head. "Aw, what's the use of gettin' grouched?" Billy cheered. "It's a pretty good country."
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